The story of the election: Obama turned out his base. As a percentage of the electorate, young voters (18-29) actually increased by a point. So did turnout among Latinos. And turnout among blacks matched 2008. O’s ground game was simply amazing.

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Just a word of caution on total-vote counts — those will rise significantly over the next few days. I got stung on that in 2008 when I claimed that the election of Obama didn’t come from a big turnout, only to be proven wrong a few days later.

doesn’t matter now, pray the 5 semi-sane Supreme court justices stay alive and motivated. I’m not sure what we’re supposed to do to reach out to “people of color”, they have the same rights and opportunities as most of us do. They just fall prey to demagogues telling them the world is against them. I do think some people had their problems with the Mormon thing, but not sure how you don’t look past that and see how much Obama sucks.

The problem isn’t how many votes were cast for either candidate. The problem is who does the counting. The Diebold electronic voting machines can be hacked in 10 seconds. Corruption is prevelant among Democrats. Thanks to electronic voting machines, votes can be easily manipulated and changed.

No need to vote any more. the results will be what ever THEY want to be!

I believe that the issue lies with how Mitt wet about the campaign. He didn’t realize that the pursuadable voters were not as sophisticated on policy and politics. Obama realized that very much and went full bore after that group. An then he did all he could to make sure they turned out.

It will be small consolation, but I hope the coming ravage hurts these feckless Obama voters badly. We (my family have been preparing for a 2nd Obama term since his election in 2008. We will not be immune to the pain coming, but we’re in good shape to ride it out.

When people whine about about $5+ gas, unemployment, inflation, high food prices…etc. etc., ask them if they voted for the Commie, if they say yes, punch them in the face.

Of course he lost votes. He had nothing to run on. Unemployment is 7.9 percent, Bush’s memory has receded, we’ve added $6 trillion in debt, and he still won the election. It’s an almost miraculous organizational effort.

obama is a talentless puppet, who was install by a coalition of progressives; by himself he is very little, but they created a bio, wrote speeches etc. and got him into the WH so the can carry out their agenda. so, “obama did this great ” and “obama did that great” is just as true as “obama is the greatest orator evah”.

Of course he lost votes. He had nothing to run on. Unemployment is 7.9 percent, Bush’s memory has receded, we’ve added $6 trillion in debt, and he still won the election. It’s an almost miraculous organizational effort.

“They’ll turn us into beggars, because they’re easier to please”. Thats not organization, thats just laziness.

Vote count fraud. That’s what happened coupled with another RINO, and the Marxist gets back in.

bgibbs1000 on November 7, 2012 at 10:29 AM

Just shut up about fraud.

Obama’s victory was so far outside the margin of fraud that even making the accusation makes you look like a fool. Even more, we held the Secretary of State’s office in most of those swing states Romney lost.

1. Paper ballots only, hand counted with observers from all sides present.
2. Voter ID required to vote, no exceptions.
3. Only one day to vote, no early voting.
4. No provisional ballots.
5. No voting hours extension, if you’re not in line by poll closing you don’t vote.
6. Absentee ballot only for valid reasonable excuse.

Obama’s victory was so far outside the margin of fraud that even making the accusation makes you look like a fool. Even more, we held the Secretary of State’s office in most of those swing states Romney lost.

KingGold on November 7, 2012 at 10:32 AM

Really, how do you explain 16 million fewer votes cast than 4 years ago and Romney got almost 5 million fewer than McCain. Don’t give me that crap about turnout.

The common thread here is that RINOs stopped supporting them.
Dems elected a woman that claimed she was an Indian. They stood by her. She won.
RINOs are not reliable. And they lost 2 Presidential elections.
faraway on November 7, 2012 at 10:43 AM

Also consider that in Illinois, Jessie Jackson Jr. Was re-elected while in the Mayo clinic for being bipolar. He hasn’t done his job since May and did not campaign. Also, an Illinois senator was re-elected after being indicted in September for taking a bribe. People are excruciatingly dumb and intolerant of Republicans. It isn’t the other way around.

White women voted 56% for Romney. All of Obama’s major support came from minority women and men. It is not a gender gap, it is a minority gap, and the only way to change that would be to try to out give the Democrats. We didn’t lose because of social issues, we lost because of the people dependent on government.

OK, but how significantly? Millions of votes? Enough to bring us up to the ’08 count? Seems hard to believe.

jwolf on November 7, 2012 at 10:08 AM

In 2008, there were 10 million votes counted after election day. Some states do not count absentee ballots until after the regular ballots. Some west coast states are not yet done counting their election day ballots.

Watch the You tube video and see how easy it is to change votes. Very easy manipulation, nbefore any SOS can see the results.. I understand many people aren’t capable of thinking that our voting system can be so flawed. But it is!

The common thread here is that RINOs stopped supporting them.
Dems elected a woman that claimed she was an Indian. They stood by her. She won.
RINOs are not reliable. And they lost 24 Presidential elections going back to 1976. McCain, Dole, Bush 1(who only won the first time riding Reagan’s coattails), Ford.
faraway on November 7, 2012 at 10:43 AM